Lotto Winner Refuses to Share With Co-workers

[Information Analyst]

The way my fiance's coworkers did it was one person bought the tickets and then they photocopied the numbers and everyone in the pool got a copy. Then there is no question as to what numbers everyone had.

I ran a few different UK National Lottery syndicates at places I worked in the past, and it was always the case that we played the same numbers every week, which were all on the original signed agreements, which everyone got a copy of. Actually photocopying each set of tickets each week was too much hassle, but as it was usually someone else buying them, before giving to me to hold, there were always plenty to witnesses to confirm that they had actually been purchased.

 

[Information Analyst]

So if you are in a syndicate you can't buy your own tickets?

Sure, you can, as long as you hand the syndicate tickets over to the others before the draw.

 

[Sideroxylon]

So if you are in a syndicate you can't buy your own tickets?

If you can't publicly demark them as distinct from the syndicate's prior to the draw then no.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Now she's claiming she had proof the ticket is hers alone, but the Hamburglar stole it.

 

[WildCat]

I think the only fair way to handle this is to give the winning ticket to me.

 

[Travis]

The sensible solution is to convert all lotteries into tontines.

Then they need to put that **** on TV. Talk about entertainment!

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I don't play the lottery***, but if I did, I would never in a million years buy tickets as part of a group.



***If I had been in a 7-11 sometime last week, I likely would have bought one or two for fun, as I have done in the past when the jackpot is big. But those occasions are rare. I bet in the last 20 years, I've spent less than $20.

 

[Moon-Spinner]

I don't play the lottery***, but if I did, I would never in a million years buy tickets as part of a group.

I was about to write the same thing.

Winning a big pay-off lottery really brings out the worst in people. This whole "Group purchasing lottery tickets, but when it wins one person claims it was his ticket alone" stuff repeats itself so many times. It's good to see some groups (as written about in this thread) have taken some steps to avoid it.

 

[Ladewig]

I went in on a couple of tickets with one cow-orker some decades ago.
I asked him what he would do if I cashed the tickeet and kept all the money. He said that he would kill me.

I asked, "what if you tracked me down and I gave you your half?"
"I'd kill you"
"What if you tracked me down and I gave you all of it?"
"I'd kill you."

At that point I looked in his eyes and decided that there was non-negligiable possibility that he was serious. We didn't win.

 

[NoahFence]

Big Mac, Large Fries and 105Million Dollars

Yikes.

So this woman claims that the winning ticket is still hidden inside the McDonalds that she works at.

Isn't this pretty much an invitation for everybody who reads yahoo.com to go to this McDonalds and trash the place?


(105 Million = their lump sum payout)

 

[Rolfe]

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233552

 

[jhunter1163]

As someone said on MSN, there's something filet-o-fishy about this woman's story.

 

[Molinaro]

We buy tickets at work. Once the tickets are bought they are photocopied and the copies posted on the wall in the office and in the warehouse, along with a list of all those who pitched in for the tickets.

There's no way for a situation like the one in the OP to come up.

 

[Horatius]

http://www.olg.ca/lotteries/group_play/index.jsp


This sort of thing has been dealt with. Anyone who doesn't have some kind of agreement beforehand deserves all the hassles they get.

 

[devnull]

This story sounds fishy.

Thatd be the McFish. They never store them properly.

 

[Pulvinar]

This sort of thing has been dealt with. Anyone who doesn't have some kind of agreement beforehand deserves all the hassles they get.

Financial foresight, McDonalds employees... don't see the connection.

 

[KatieG]

If she has one of the winning tickets, I'd be very surprised. She will lose this case, more than likely. The lottery won't get involved, they'll pay out to whomever produces a legitimate ticket with proper documentation. Amazing what a chance for your very own 15 minutes will inspire some people to do.

 

[Haldur]

With any kind of agreement involving money, you want everything in writing. I mostly agree that the woman's case is highly questionable, and she probably would lose in court. The problem is that once you make an outrageous claim, it's very difficult to back down from it. So I think it will go to court, and she will lose in the end.

That said, everyone involved ought to have put the whole thing in writing, including having a record of the purchased lottery tickets prior to the drawing. But hindsight is 20/20. If people were that on the ball, there would probably be a whole lot fewer lawsuits.

 

[timhau]

The problem is that once you make an outrageous claim, it's very difficult to back down from it.

Yeah. By now it's sort of late to say "April fool! Now let's go on working together as one happy McFamily like before."

That said, everyone involved ought to have put the whole thing in writing, including having a record of the purchased lottery tickets prior to the drawing. But hindsight is 20/20. If people were that on the ball, there would probably be a whole lot fewer lawsuits.

I can't help but think that there would also be a lot fewer lottery tickets sold.